Scott and Julianne Donnini stand in vineyard at their winery, Auburn Road Vineyard & Winery, in Pilesgrove. Scott Donnini was once a corporate lawyer and stock broker. 11.15.13

Written by

Steve Wood
| Courier-Post

The Internet age was upon us, upstarts were everywhere and investors who no longer feared the wrath of Y2K poured money into exciting new companies.

The markets were up, and everything climbed skyward - until March of that year, when the Dow crashed to Earth with a fury unseen since 1929. It plummeted 77 percent over the next three years and turned a string of dotcoms into dot bombs. ...